Hachette Books
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
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- Bradley Hope
- Hachette Books
- Mass Market Paperbacks
- 9780306873577
- 6.7 X 4.15 X 1.5 inches
- 0.57 pounds
- Business & Economics > Corporate & Business History - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.
Billion Dollar Whale has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.
Author Bio
Bradley Hope is a financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in London. He was formerly a correspondent in New York, covering exchanges and market structure. Before that, he was based in Abu Dhabi, Cairo and Beirut, where he covered the Arab Spring uprisings.
London-based Bradley is also co-founder of innovative content studio Project Brazen.
Co-author of BLOOD AND OIL about the rise to power of Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman and the New York Times bestseller BILLION DOLLAR WHALE: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World, about the global 1MDB scandal and Jho Low.
To contact securely: https://github.com/bradleyhopeWSJ/contact
Formerly a Beirut- and Cairo-based foreign correspondent for The National newspaper, which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Before that, police bureau chief and a features writer for the New York Sun.
Author of "Last Days of the Pharaoh," an Amazon Kindle Single about the power struggle inside the presidential palace of Hosni Mubarak during the 18-day revolution that forced him to resign.
Source: Wall Street Journal and Linkedin.com
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